In the spirit of the holidays we will be talking about FAMILIES in the tiny house world, among other things! Joining us we will have guest hosts Kacie Erickson from TreadingTiny.com as well as Peter and Abby with FatandCrunchy.com As always Macy Miller from MiniMotives.com will be co-hosting the chat with me. Please bring any questions you would like to chat about with these folks and others!

For those of you who aren’t familiar with this, Tiny House Chat is a space for Tiny House enthusiasts to come together and share ideas and stories. The concept of this is to be for the Tiny House community and facilitated by the community. We hope that this platform will achieve the following:

Develop lasting connections among the Tiny House community.

Strengthen and expand the community.

Foster the sharing of ideas.

Provide a resource for the various stages of a tiny house

Have a lot of fun and get to know each other better!!

The Chat will take place at these times in the various time zones:

5pm-6pm Pacific Time
6pm-7pm Mountain Time
7pm-8pm Central Time
8pm-9pm Eastern Time

Over the years I received a lot of comments and emails saying that Tiny Houses aren’t practical, “how am I supposed to fit my whole family in 150 square feet”, etc. At this point I should disclose that I do have a bias to Tiny Houses for one or two people as I am currently not married and have no children. However, to understand this I would point out that Tiny Houses have no definition. They don’t have a dictated size, form, shape, color, etc. What does this mean? A Tiny House is what you want it to be; it is this flexibility that draws people to us, that opens doors and minds to what could be.

The answer is that the Tiny Houses that are 100-200 square feet aren’t designed for families. A Tiny House for a family might be 1,000 square feet, but it isn’t about the number, it is more a factor using space efficiently and reasonably to suit your life style needs. I always tell people to consider the square footage per person living there, if they are insistent about the number.

The truth is, that Tiny Houses of 100-200 square feet isn’t a magical number, that has been divined by some deep insight or other means. In fact the size of the trailer often dictates the size of the house, so in a way, it’s quite arbitrary. To this point, Tiny Houses don’t have to be built on a trailer either, because there is no true definition of Tiny Houses.

Today even the definition of a family is being challenged, it is no longer the traditional family unit that is being considered a family. Couple that with the fact that Tiny House is whatever you want it to be and we begin to see that the Tiny House Movement as a very flexible thing that morphs to your needs, not what someone else tells you it needs to be.